Jade Clarke

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Jade Clarke

Jade Clarke in 2008

Personal information

Born

17 October 1983
Manchester, England

Height

1.74 m (5 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)

Netball career

Playing position(s): WD, C

Medal record

Competitor for England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze	2006 Melbourne	Netball
Bronze	2010 Delhi	Netball

Last updated: 15 October 2010

Jade Clarke (born 17 October 1983 in Manchester, England)^[1] is an English netball player. Primarily a midcourt defender, Clarke was selected for the England national netball team in 2002, making her senior debut the following year against New Zealand. During her international career, she has competed at two Netball World Championships (2003 and 2007), two Commonwealth Games (2006 and 2010), and the 2009 and 2011 World Netball Series.^[2] Clarke plays domestic netball in the Netball Superleague, having played four seasons with Loughborough Lightning before switching to the Northern Thunder for 2009–10.^[3] In 2010, Clarke was signed to play in the Australasian ANZ Championship with New Zealand–based team the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, as a Temporary Replacement Player for injured midcourter Peta Scholz.^[4]^[5]

In 2011 she was named as the captain of England, after the retirement of Karen Atkinson after the 2011 Netball World Championships. She captained them to a first ever gold medal in the 2011 World Netball Series. In 2012 she signed on to play for the NZ Franchise, Northern Mystics for the ANZ Championships. She has signed with the Canterbury Tactix for the 2013 season.

References

↑ "2006 Commonwealth Games profile". Retrieved 5 June 2010.
↑ 2009 England Netball profile. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
↑ "Northern Thunder sign Bayman & Clarke". Daily Express. 10 November 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
↑ Pegden, Evan (5 June 2010). "Jade Clarke crossing the chasm". Waikato Times. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
↑ Johannsen, Dana (5 June 2010). "Late Magic signing ends speculation". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 June 2010.

v t e Canterbury Tactix – 2013 team

Players	Clarke Fenwick Grant Harten Hayman Hurley Manu Naoupu Thayer Thompson (capt) Trip Walker Watson

Coaching staff	Leigh Gibbs (head coach) Julie Seymour (asst coach)

Persondata
Name	Clarke, Jade
Alternative names
Short description	British netball players
Date of birth	17 October 1983
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Date of death
Place of death

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